{"id":710229,"date":"2026-01-21T06:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/710229\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:02:17","slug":"chelsea-wasted-facundo-buonanotte-leeds-united-not-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/710229\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea wasted Facundo Buonanotte – Leeds United not happy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leeds United<\/a> finally have their hands on Facundo Buonanotte half-a-season later than anticipated, after cutting short his Chelsea<\/a> loan to move to Elland Road last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Leeds entered the January window, the attacking third was the main focus for Daniel Farke<\/a> and the 49ers\u2019 recruitment team.<\/p>\n

How they added creativity to the side would be an intriguing development. Leeds made their moves back in the summer<\/a> to address that shortcoming, and have their long-awaited target as a result.<\/p>\n

Most Read on LeedsAllOver<\/p>\n

Facundo Buonanotte waits for Leeds United debut after arriving on loan from Brighton<\/p>\n

Last week, it emerged that Leeds had agreed to sign Facundo Buonanotte<\/a> on loan from Brighton. A development that raised eyebrows, given the Argentine turned down a move to Leeds<\/a> in the summer window in favour of Chelsea.<\/p>\n

As virtually everyone apart from Buonanotte expected<\/a>, he was a peripheral figure at Chelsea. His development was done no favours by joining the mass influx of young talent at Stamford Bridge, and Leeds managed to agree a deal to take him<\/a> for the remainder of this season.<\/p>\n

Joining on loan, he was named on the bench against Fulham. But, he was an unused sub as Leeds won it late through Lukas Nmecha\u2019s fine finish<\/a>. He\u2019ll have got his first proper glimpse of Elland Road\u2019s atmosphere in that second half.<\/p>\n

\"\"Daniel Farke will be planning how to get Facundo Buonanotte ticking in his Leeds United squad. (Action Images via Reuters\/Ed Sykes)<\/p>\n

Buonanotte is now looking ahead to the Everton trip in six days\u2019 time. At the Hill Dickinson Stadium, He\u2019ll be hoping to make his debut under Farke.<\/p>\n

Bizarre Chelsea, Facundo Buonanotte detail uncovered that Leeds United will not be happy with<\/p>\n

Leeds had the private jet ready for Buonanotte in August. He instead decided moving to Chelsea with the lure of an elite club and Champions League football too strong for Leeds to fight against.<\/p>\n

The notion of regular involvement was clearly presented to the 21-year-old, though. The Athletic<\/a> reveal that Chelsea\u2019s reason for signing Buonanotte was that they found no other suitable creative attackers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSources speaking anonymously to\u00a0The Athletic\u00a0to protect relationships say not finding anyone suitable is also why Buonanotte was signed on loan,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n

\"\"Facundo Buonanotte joins Leeds United after lack of action at Chelsea. (Reuters\/Peter Cziborra)<\/p>\n

Annoyingly for Leeds, Buonanotte was seen merely as a stop-gap at Chelsea. They planned having him as cover while Palmer got back to fitness. Nothing more.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the 21-year-old Argentina international was always intended to only be at Stamford Bridge for the first half of this season, despite the deal being for all of it, as cover while Cole Palmer\u2019s injury issues were being managed,\u201d the report continues.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s worse is that between Chelsea signing Buonanotte on September 1st, and Palmer\u2019s proper return from groin issues against Leeds in December<\/a>, the Argentine played just 45 minutes of Premier League football. So, he wasn\u2019t needed at all to cover Palmer, as Enzo Maresca barely used him. <\/p>\n

Buonanotte did make three Champions League appearances for Chelsea with 163 minutes in total. But, he was initially left out of their UEFA squad<\/a>, only included when Dario Essugo suffered an injury.<\/p>\nCompetitionAppearancesMinutes played% played of total
minutes available<\/tr>\n\nPremier League<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n2.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nChampions League<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEFL Cup<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n241<\/td>\n67%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFA Cup<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n76.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Leeds United can put baffling Facundo Buonanotte, Chelsea saga behind them now<\/p>\n

Given our form at the moment, losing just one game since the end of November, it\u2019s hard to see how Buonanotte gets into our lineup. He doesn\u2019t really at this stage.<\/p>\n

However, adding a completely different profile to our squad \u2013 a creative, left-footed, right-sided attacking midfielder<\/a> \u2013 is a huge addition for Farke.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s wanted that sort of signing for two-and-a-half years at Leeds. And, he\u2019s finally got his hands on the ideal profile.<\/p>\n

Buonanotte knows he made a mistake choosing Chelsea over Leeds. Thankfully, the deal was doable in January and we have a significant boost to our survival bid as a result.<\/p>\n

Read more: Could Leeds United offer promotion hero in deal to sign Jorgen Strand Larsen?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United finally have their hands on Facundo Buonanotte half-a-season later than anticipated, after cutting short his Chelsea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,885,25764,393,117981,4884,1860,2922,142361,142362,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-710229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-elland-road","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-facundo-buonanotte","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-leeds","15":"tag-leeds-united","16":"tag-lufc","17":"tag-the-whites","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115931575055195506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}